American culture - and possibly other advanced industrial cultures experiencing similar problems that we are - is inundated with a strange and perpetual bickering of egos, in which one person will put another down simply by virtue of the other person having a different functioning style, or a different personality.
It is as if one part of a river - a swirling eddy - gazes over at its bubbling brethren which curls around a risen rock and dubs that region of the river inferior. It seems like nonsense to us, because we view the river as a unity, but then each of us as individuals wants to view our own individual locality as a unity which supersedes the unity of us as a collective.
And this then produces a culture that determines the way in which we reproduce ourselves.
